Illuminati News: We Have Met the Enemy in the War on Terror … and He is Us

We Have Met the Enemy in the War on Terror … and He is Us
by Doug Newman, August 12, 2006

s it just me, or does anyone else feel the vise grip tightening?

Thursday’s news read as follows: “Airline passengers around the country stood in line for hours and airport trash bins bulged with everything from mouthwash and shaving cream to maple syrup and fine wine Thursday in a security crackdown prompted by the discovery of a terror plot in Britain.”

Imagine this. In “the land of the free and the home of the brave” there is a “security crackdown.” Crackdown on whom, may I ask?

United Airlines posted updated TSA regulations – including a ban on all liquids or gels in carry-on baggage -- on its web site on August 10, in response to the discovery of the terror plot. Hmm. Perhaps I am naïve, but I thought that things like this had to be passed by legislators and signed by the president before I could be arrested for violating them.

But no. We have a War on Terror. The executive branch has to act and act fast! It is for your protection. I mean they have to do something.

We are told that we are fighting a war against terrorists who “hate our freedom” and seek to “undermine our very way of life.”

If America succumbs to full-blown tyranny it will not be because of crazed, diabolical “Islamo-Fascists.” It will be because the American people willingly relinquished their freedom in the name of security.

America has two constitutions. One was ordained and established in Philadelphia in 1787. The other exists in the hearts and minds of the American people and far more important. If “we the people” are ignorant, apathetic and downright unwilling to defend their God-given rights, the written Constitution becomes just a piece of paper.

Ever since September 11, the American people have been all too happy to let the FEDGOV do whatever it pleases. We applaud the USA PATRIOT Act. We submit to the TSA grope-and-grab at airports. We have no objection to warrantless searches. We could care less if Uncle Sam monitors our e-mails and phone calls. After all, “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear” and “your civil liberties don’t matter if you’re dead.”

My response to this is: “Just how do you know you have nothing to hide?”

Consider the following:

Americans have already accepted all ten policy planks of the Communist Manifesto as the law of the land.

Millions of Americans don’t mind one bit that we have the world’s highest incarceration rate.

The Federal Register – Uncle Sam’s compendium of laws and regulations with which you and I are required to comply – runs 70,000 pages. Do you know what is in there? Do you? If you violate it, prepare to don an orange jumpsuit.

The Internal Revenue code runs 11,000,000 words. Again: do you know what is in there?

The worst part of the post-9/11 agenda is Uncle Sam’s assumption of power to imprison terror suspects arbitrarily and indefinitely without formal charges, without the right to face their accuser, without a jury trial or without any semblance of due process whatsoever.

What was that about “threatening our very way of life”? This is not the doing of some psychopath in Afghanistan. It is the doing of our own government. And it is all in the name of freedom, of course.

As one observer put it: “On September 11, 2001 a horrible crime was committed. On September 12, 2001 the American people became suspects.” Of far greater danger than terrorists abroad is how unquestioningly so many Americans have accepted their new status.

First it was 9/11 and the growth of the surveillance state. Then it was Thursday's unveiling of a terrorist plot in Britain and new restrictions on what we can carry on planes. What will come after the next terrorist episode, be it an attack or an arrest? And how calmly will the American people accept whatever laws or regulations Uncle Sam hands down? As an old German proverb says, freedom dies in little pieces.